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If you're looking for a hard-boiled detective in the mold of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, Dick DeWitt is not your hero. He's not very bright, oozes insensitivity, lacks class, and epitomizes what we now recognize as political incorrectness. A Tinseltown starlet wannabe needs help. She has become involved with two sleazes - a fast-talking lecherous movie agent and a mean, corrupt cop. She's kept two little black books that could ruin the men, and that's why she needs an intelligent, tough-as-nails guy to protect her.

A series of murders leads Detective Inspector Sean Connor and his team into a labyrinthine investigation. The victims are dispatched using a poison previously associated with the notorious Borgia family. As the murders multiply at an alarming rate, Connor finds clues hard to come by, and every lead takes him down yet another blind alley. The killer seems to be one step ahead of him at every turn. Together with Sergeant Lucy Clay, they must piece together the shreds of evidence and find the mastermind behind the murders that become known as Purple Death.

The Suicide Game tells the stories of a black hit man who doubles as a university professor, a Catholic priest who longs to be a gangster, a would-be author from Kansas, a gay phone sex operator who claims he’s straight, a group of rich 20-somethings playing a deadly game of life and death, a ruthless Mafia boss, and a sleazy Hollywood movie director. As each of their stories intersect, bodies start piling up, and the action is nonstop in this tense, white-knuckle thriller by Andy Rausch.

Sex and the mafia collide with higher education to make English professor Willard Slick’s tenure very tenuous. When “Slick Willie” asks Dudley College students to write about their sexual experiences, students, parents, faculty, and the college president are up in arms. Unfortunately for Slick, so is the head of New England’s crime syndicate.

In a world where media companies hack into personal communications at will, Adam and Isobel are pursued by faceless, unknown men. Riots and civil unrest turn the country upside down, while a mysterious group of insiders attempts to use the spreading anarchy to further their own agenda. Politicians line their pockets with falsified expense claims, and crooked practices operate within the police force, as government contracts are bought and sold by those who have the prime minister's ear.

Dundee, Scotland, 1862. After the mill of businessman Matthew Beaumont burns to the ground, Detective Sergeant George Watters is sent to investigate. Soon, George discovers that this is not the first property that has been targeted. When a man is found dead in the hold of a trade ship, George discovers a shocking connection between Beaumont and foreign powers threatening the very country.

It's Halloween, and excitement is brewing in Braxton to carve jack-o'-lanterns, go on haunted hayrides, and race through the spooky corn maze at the Fall Festival. Despite the former occupant's warnings, Kellan renovates and moves into a mysterious old house. When a ruthless ghost promises retribution, our fearless professor turns to the eccentric town historian and an eerie psychic to communicate with the apparition.

A phonecall in the middle of the night changes Rob MacLaine's future. The seasoned, battle-hardened ex-special forces operative is summoned back to his family home on Achravie, west coast of Scotland. He has had no contact with his past after his father sent him away at the age of 16. But now, Rob is back on Achravie - back to face his past and encounter friends and enemies alike. What he doesn't expect is an explosive reunion with his older brother, and the dark secrets that shroud his childhood home.

Recently widowed Agnes Lockwood is spending a few days on Tyneside in Northeast England, catching up with her past. When expensive jewelry is stolen at the hotel, Chief Inspector Alan Johnson gets on the case. After Alan recognizes Agnes as a friend from schooldays, they rekindle their friendship and Agnes bombards him with questions about the case. But after dinner one evening, they find a body lying on the roadside. Fearing for her safety, Alan warns Agnes to stay away from the case. But being an inquisitive woman, Agnes cannot resist getting involved...too involved.

It's the 1960s, and Joe has fled the big city only to end up in the small resort town of Applewood. Writing for the Gazette, Joe's life is uneventful until strange events begin to unfold. A young girl drowns off a motorboat, and a local farmer plants a hoe in his wife's back. The assistant manageress of the bank vanishes without a trace. Why is the whole town going crazy?

It was not the first time best-selling author Sheila Armstrong had died on stage, but it would most certainly be the last. DCI Alex Warren and his girlfriend, DI Sandra McKinnon, return from a short holiday, but hardly manage to step from the plane before they're called to investigate the suspicious death.

The Fifth Commandment is a supernatural memoir entwined with a plot drenching with old-fashioned religious guilt, and short enough to finish in a single sitting - perhaps lounging by the pool or sitting in the garden. The novella follows Christina into a confessional and starts at what we would consider our weakest point.

The fate of the world is balanced on a knife's edge. Despite everything Madden and Eva have been through to prevent it, the ARC Council is in disarray and demons roam the Earth. The Apocalypse is closer than ever, and the solution couldn’t be further from her grasp. Eva has to throw off the yolk of personal tragedy and follow her destiny to the one place she doesn't want to go. The one place she cannot hope to avoid.

After aspiring novelist Jake Conley regains consciousness from a coma, he discovers he’s affected by synaesthesia and that his now cross-wired brain endows him with heightened psychic powers. Jake’s research on the Northumbrian king Aldfrith takes him to Elfrid’s Hole in North Yorkshire, where - as legend relates - the king sheltered after a bloody battle. What Jake doesn't realize is that his investigation has unleashed a series of deadly paranormal events in which Jake himself becomes the prime suspect.

For roommates Olivia and Taylor, college hopes are quickly turning into a nightmare of strange dreams, missing memories, and mysterious disappearances. Olivia is on the run from a troubled marriage. When her husband turns up to finalize their divorce, they are engulfed in an even deadlier danger. Can they save their marriage...or even themselves? Taylor's life is returning to normal. She has a loving family and a job she likes. She even dares fall in love with Ronnie, the paramedic who saved her life. But as winter tightens its grip, a new danger arises.

Olivia and Edward Lereux live a quiet life with their chocolate border collie Axel in a picturesque cottage flanked by Maine’s blustery cliffs, far from town and people. Outwardly, their lives appear normal, but they’re not ordinary people. The Lereux family is cursed with something that has claimed their ancestors for many years. When Ravine Lereux receives a distressing letter from her Uncle Edward, she must return to a place she swore never to return - a place that’s haunted by something, an abnormal presence she feared as a child.

1985. Kalamazoo, Michigan. Young, openly gay Wayne Watson is beaten to death under a dark, secluded railroad trestle. The two neighborhood toughs are in jail within 24 hours. It's an open-and-shut murder case. Or, is it? In Trestle of Death: Murder Unpunished, Bob Holderbaum explores this intriguing, "new twist at every turn" case.

The inventor of the world's first teleportation device has been savagely murdered, and Global Inspector Burt Campbell is tasked to uncover who killed the infamous scientist. As he delves deeper into the case, strange things begin to happen. Spirits seem to be controlling deadly objects to viciously attack him, and according to the teleporter computer, the spirits are taking orders straight from the inventor's ghost. The only person with answers is the inventor's beautiful assistant, Penelope Preston...but she has secrets of her own.

Prison psychologist Eva Ross has dealt with her share of sinners. The corrupt, the insane; their minds were all hers to unlock. But when those around her start to show the same characteristics, she is forced to turn to a stranger for help. Together with the mysterious Madden Scott, she enters a new reality. As the world around her shifts, secrets barely hidden under the surface are revealed.

Jonah Rowe is looking for meaning for his life. He finally gets his wish, as sudden visions and a spectral visitor warn him of danger. Overnight, Jonah transforms from an overworked accountant to the centerpiece of an otherworldly battle. But can he rise to the occasion and accept that everything he knows about life and death is completely wrong - and more importantly, will he be able to harness the power of the mysterious 11th percent?